CRUEL SHOES II: WHY I OUGHTA ...!!!
Dec. 16th, 2008 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogInevitably, the Iraqi Shoe Chucker is now the Interweb’s new favorite GIF meme.
BoingBoing is collecting them, but I rather like this one (via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
substitute ):
Nyuk nyuk nyuk, etc.
And while we’re at it, regarding the whole “Throwing shoes is disrespectful in Iraq, unlike in Kentucky” thing, the BBC actually has a good piece explaining what some journalists were trying to get at – that shoes are a particularly strong insult tool in Muslim culture whether you throw them or not.
Which I already knew, and fair call, but too many news reports didn’t make that distinction clearly enough.
Shoe fly,
This is dF
BoingBoing is collecting them, but I rather like this one (via
substitute ):Nyuk nyuk nyuk, etc.
And while we’re at it, regarding the whole “Throwing shoes is disrespectful in Iraq, unlike in Kentucky” thing, the BBC actually has a good piece explaining what some journalists were trying to get at – that shoes are a particularly strong insult tool in Muslim culture whether you throw them or not.
Which I already knew, and fair call, but too many news reports didn’t make that distinction clearly enough.
Shoe fly,
This is dF
